The Burnt House - Softcover

Lively, Adam

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0099303825 ISBN 13: 9780099303824

Publisher: Vintage, 1993

Synopsis

Adam Lively's first novel Blue Fruit was greeted as 'a startling debut, a positive tour de force' (Punch), and his second The Burnt House as 'an allegory for the times that tesitifies to its author's fertile imagination' (Guardian). At the novel's centre is the delapidated and charred house that the American tekevision anchorman Bob Morton buys when he comes to London to make a television series on contemporary Britain. Famous in America, Morton relishes his anonymity. Yet being away Morton is forced to confront his part, his brother's death and his immersion in his 'career'. Passing through the burnt house are Morton's sax-playing daughter Laura and the silent science-fiction addict Aidan whom Morton befriends.

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About the Author:

Adam Lively was born in Swansea in 1961 and studied history in England and America. He has published the novels Blue Fruit (1988) and The Burnt House (in 1989), a novella The Snail (1991), and a pamphlet in Chatto Counterblasts series, Parliament: The Great British Democracy Swindle (1990). His work has also appeared in the anthologies 20 under 35, P.E.N. New Poetry II and The Dylan Companion. Selected as one of the Best Young British Novelists in 1993, his novel Sing the Body Electric is published by Chatto & Windus. He lives in London with his wife Diana, and their children Jacob and Anne.

Synopsis:

A bittersweet view of contemporary London, through an American TV anchorman's re-evaluation of his life and criticisms of Thatcherite values; his sax-playing daughter's romanticism, disillusionment and despair; and a friend's odyssey through the city's streets. By the author of "Blue Fruit".

About this edition

• Publisher: Vintage
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0099303825
• ISBN 13: 9780099303824
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 264